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His son, Richard Schumacher ( 1827 – 1902 ), was his assistant from 1844 to 1850 at the conservatory at Altona.

Having become assistant to Carlos Guillermo Moesta ( 1825 – 1884 ), director of the observatory at Santiago de Chile, in 1859, he was associated with the Chilean geodesic survey in 1864.

Returning in 1869, he was appointed assistant astronomer at Altona in 1873, and afterwards at Kiel.